The T20 World Cup 2024 is all set to begin a week after the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League. The IPL 2024 will conclude on May 26, and the ICC event will start on June 1. India will play its first match on June 5, which will be against Ireland. The squad might be announced in the first week of May.
The first job is to find an ideal opening pair. India has the option of Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, or Yashasvi Jaiswal as the openers. Hence, it will be a big question, which will open the innings. However, here we will talk about three possible opening pairs that India can choose for the T20 World Cup 2024.
1. Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal
Rohit Sharma will be the first-choice opener in the team because he is the captain. Now it is the question about the second opener. Team India might opt for Yashasvi Jaiswal, as it looks like the management is backing Jaiswal in the shorter format. It will also make the left-hand and right-hand combinations at the top. This is likely to be the first pair that India can choose at the top.
2. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill
Shubman Gill is another choice as an opener. Notably, he is more experienced than Jaiswal and is also in good form at the moment. Jaiswal has looked a bit rusty in the IPL 2024, but Gill has played good knocks. India has been playing this Gill-Rohit pair for a year or so, and they also opened the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 at home.
1. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
India can opt for another pair, with Rohit Sharma batting along with Virat Kohli. Rohit and Virat have a great understanding of each other, and they have taken India out of difficult situations many times at the highest level. Virat’s numbers as a T20I opener are also good. He has played 9 games as the T20I opener and scored 400 runs at an average and strike rate of 57.14 and 161.29, respectively, with one century and two half-centuries.
